INDO-PAK-BANGLA Friendship Forum launched
Author(s): City Air NewsParticipants take oath in Chandigarh on Monday. Chandigarh, February 25, 2013: As a follow-up to the recent visit of Pramod Sharma, Coordinator, Yuvsatta to meet people in Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, a group...
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Feb 25, 2013 10:30
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Participants take oath in Chandigarh on Monday.
Chandigarh, February 25, 2013: As a follow-up to the recent visit of Pramod Sharma, Coordinator, Yuvsatta to meet people in Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, a group of students, social activists, lawyers, businessmen and journalists met at UT Guest House here on Monday.
They deliberated on present challenges, common issues and possibilities of promoting peace, harmony and goodwill between three countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Sanjay Sharma, Resident Editor of The Sunday Guardian chaired the meeting.
The initiative of forming a 'Indo Pak Bangla Friendship Forum' has been taken by Yuvsatta NGO and Prakash Foundation, a non-profit organisation for the empowerment of farmers and rural girls, in association with the National Youth Project Pakistan, and National Youth and Social Welfare Council of Bangladesh.
Giving information about the initiative, Prof. Manjit Singh of Panjab University shared, “After a prolonged discussion among the participants it was found that ordinary people among all the three countries could not be separated from their hundreds of years of common civilisational roots by the artificially built barricades of borders.”
Narvijay Yadav of Prakash Foundation said, “People of all three countries still yarn to have an experience of inter-cultural fragrance of diversities from which they have been divested of due to vested interest of political elite.”
Giving an action plan to promote Indo-Pak-Bangla Friendship Pramod Sharma, Coordinator, Yuvsatta said, “Today’s meeting unanimously resolved to muster more than 1,00,000 people who will not only take an oath to stand against wars, fundamentalism, violence against women and also they will strive to root out corruption and waste of natural resources to achieve sustainable development in this region of South Asia.” Reeta Kohli, Additional Advocate General of Punjab, administered this oath to all the participants.
Similarly, people of partner organisation of National Youth Project in Lahore, Pakistan and National Youth and Social Welfare Council of Dhaka, Bangladesh had also taken this oath today.
The organisers plan to intensify this effort of bringing more and more people together in future.
